FF: So, Paul, do you find it hard to play a vampire as they’re such conflicted characters?

P: It’s certainly challenging to make any character complex and interesting but when I read the script, I sort of fell into Stefan and related to him and I have no idea why.

I could sit here and psychologically analyse myself, and I probably have and come with reasons why I relate to him but in an abridged version I think there are a lot of similarities between Stefan and myself.

So, there’s difficulty in that, but what we do is difficult and that’s why I do it, I need challenge in what I’m doing.

FF: Nina, you’ve acted in both this and a television film called Never Cry Werewolf,  so do you like playing supernatural parts?

N: I love the show and I love that it has all these supernatural abilities and the vampires and the witches and the effects and it’s really cool and it’s really fun to do and I do like it.

Never Cry Werewolf was a film that I did years ago for the Sci-Fi network and it was a lot of fun too, it’s all about enjoying what you do at the time you’re doing it. I don’t want to just play that [fantasy characters] though.

I love it, but I would love to be in a sports movie, I’d love to do an action film and a drama and a comedy, there are so many different things I want to do.

I’d rather not do something in the same gene during my time off because I’m dying to a drama or a teary piece just to spice things up have a fresh challenge.

FF: How has the huge success of this show affected your personal lives?

N: Well, for one thing we now live in Atlanta, Georgia.

P: The fact that we’re in Atlanta, we’re a little bit removed from everything, so we’re pretty oblivious really.

N: It gives us a chance to have a personal life.

P: Los Angeles, New York, London these are very metropolitan, big cities and I think it’s a little more apparent there when you’re on a TV show and you live there. For us in Atlanta it’s pretty normal.

N: We all really enjoy that, we like to just go to work, do our thing, come home, watch movies, hang out, it’s cool.

FF: The show’s been getting great viewing figures in the States, so are you confident of getting a second season?

N: We feel good about it, but until we get the official letter in the mail saying ‘will you come back to Atlanta in July to start filming again’ we can’t say anything but we feel really good because we think this show is awesome and the feedback we’ve been getting has been great and it’s been a hit.

Even here, where the show hasn’t even aired yet, we’ve had people tell us they’ve watched it and they like it so it’s gonna be good here too.

P: Can’t imagine the British would be that much different from Americans, come on.

The Vampire Diaries is coming to ITV2 early next year and the first episode is available to buy now on iTunes.


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